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Once again, Asenath23 has created a wonderful scene from my version of "The Phantom Menace". You can find more of her work here: [link] Trapped on Naboo, seperated from the other Jedi and wounded by a pre-cyborg General Grievous, Barriss Offee and Senator Conradin run into Droid Commander VGR-001, a rather enlightened Trade Federation droid who tries to help in the politest way possible. When its logical mind is confronted with programmed orders to shoot, VGR (my nod to Star Trek: The Motion Picture) chooses not to, and let's them escape. Conradin and VGR will eventually become good friends through several stories.

"I should shoot you, but I won't. Now get out of here before I'm forced to." Is what I see him saying.I like this, the battle droids are my favourite characters in Star Wars, especially Post-Naboo where they actually have personalities!Great art!

Well not all the droids are clowns, the B2s aren't very talkative and are way less "stupid". The Magnaguards are intelligent and so are the Commando droids. But the problem with them, unlike the B1's, is they don't have personalities.

The B1's, despite being cheap and flimsy, have personalities and don't like being destroyed. I often wonder how come in certain SW:TCW episodes the clones/jedi destroy the B1s when they are unarmed. Infact, the only time a unarmed B1 didn't get destroyed for no reason was in that one episode in the "Ryloth" arc. Remember the one where Waxer and Boil picked up that little twi-lek girl? And how in the next episode there was a droid cleaning one of the cages and Obi-Wan locked him in there and instead of destroying him? Thats the only time a unarmed B1 was not shot/sashed in half for no reason. I kind of feel bad for them, as its obvious they don't like fighting.

True, not all the droids were used for comedy, but it felt at times that the combat droids were made to have ridiculous dialogue early on, and droids in general were always viewed as second class beings no matter how intelligent or thoughtful they might be. Of course, after the Clone Wars nobody was going to fully trust droids in general because of the stigma.

I was rather happy with the writing of VGR-001. He gave me a chance to really create some sympathy and humanity in a droid character.

My Saga stories are in my gallery, in special folders off to the left. Stories 1-8 are a retelling of the Prequal Trilogy with my interpretation. It's in script form which I did back in 2005-08 when I tried to think of how I would do my own cinematic versions of Episodes I,II, and III. I did it before Clone wars became a bigger TV show, so Ahsoka does not play a big part (though I tried to fit her into it after they introduced her to the Star Wars fans)

The stories are:

1) There were Ten2) Shadows Over Geonosis3) The Phantom Menace4) The Approaching Storm5) Attack of the Clones6) The Thorn Ascension7) Reversal of Fortune8) Revenge of the Sith

There's a lot to read, so take your time and enjoy. I have two Sepratist droids I became fond of in this series, VGR-001 and 888 (His friend Conradin would call him "Three-Eights") I also did more with the droid R5D4 from "A New Hope". I don't know why, but I thought I'd do more with him, and there's a running joke about his bad motivator through some stories.

I just read past this scene! Very great story! I already like your version of Phantom Menace a lot more than the original. Lucasfilm/Disney should hire your as a creative consultant. You have a very even grasp on the antagonist and protagonist point of views.

I am so glad that I read your explanation post before getting any further in your stories. A lot of things make a lot more sense now. I sort of tell myself that I am reading the same timeline but in an alternate reality... sort of like a reboot of the trilogy. You know, like how Star Trek was recently rebooted with the same characters, some new ones, and a lot of alterations to things like personalities and major plot points. Your 'alternate' version is WAY better so far.

I just got home from work and sat down to relax, and I see this wonderful comment that has made me smile on my Monday morning. I am incredibly humbled by your compliment! I am so very glad you enjoyed this scene, in writing and in this visual display by Asenath23.

I had hoped to create sympathetic characters on both sides, plus I didn't always like how the droids were always portrayed as clowns. i wanted at least one or two who knew what they were doing.

I saw so many possibilities with this trilogy, I could not stop my fingers from putting it together!!

I am so incredibly happy you are enjoying this. Of course, I also enjoy your constructive criticisms and thoughts to help make my writing better.

I too didn't like the droids always being shown as clowns. I really enjoyed the Onderon story arc in the clone wars because it involved that droid general who finally seemed to have some independence and the ability to make intuitive decisions.